《动物生物科学年鉴》特别强调生物技术、遗传学、基因组学和育种，以及兽医医学，特别是兽医病理学、传染病和疫苗开发，以及保护和动物园生物学。它的目的是科学家专注于野生和驯养动物物种，兽医，保护生物学家和遗传学家。
The Annual Review of Animal Biosciences places a particular emphasis on biotechnology, genetics, genomics, and breeding, as well as veterinary medicine, especially veterinary pathobiology, infectious diseases and vaccine development, and conservation and zoo biology. It is intended for scientists focused on wild and domesticated animal species, veterinarians, conservation biologists and geneticists.